How Can I Get Someone Who is Younger to Want to Know Me? The question – “How can I get someone who is younger to want to know me?” was asked by a Career Pivot community member in episode 193 of the Repurpose Your Career podcast. I was interviewing Lisa Rangel, from Chameleon Resumes, and […]
Entrepreneurship in the 2nd Half of Life – Now is the Time
Entrepreneurship in the 2nd Half of Life COVID-19 will push many of you into entrepreneurship in the 2nd half of life. I wrote about this previously in the post The Necessity Entrepreneur – A Path to Freedom and on the podcast episode, Are You Prepared to be an ‘After the Age of 50’ Entrepreneur? Many of […]
Have You Prepared For Your Unplanned Early Retirement?
Unplanned Early Retirement Are you prepared to be forced into an unplanned early retirement? I rarely write about retirement on this blog or discuss this topic on the podcast but COVID-19 has changed everything. Around the same time this blog post gets published I will be publishing an interview with Mark Miller of the Retirement […]
Deferring Career Happiness to the 2nd Half of Life
Deferring Career Happiness Are you deferring career happiness until you reach financial independence, paying off the mortgage, you become “empty nesters” or some other milestone in life? If that is the case, what are you deferring may never happen. My buddy Roger Whitney of the Retirement Answerman podcast uses the term life maximization. We learn […]
Do I Ever Want To Retire? I Do Not Think So. [Updated]
Do I Ever Want To Retire? Retire, why would I want to do that? My wife and I are living in Ajijic, Mexico, one of the oldest expat and retirement locations in Mexico. Therefore, it is often assumed that I am retired. We have been here for a little over 2 years and I run […]
Are You Feeling Insecure in these Uncertain Times?
Feeling Insecure in these Uncertain Times If you are feeling insecure about your career, finances, family life, health, or a myriad of other things you are not alone. It is pretty normal to feel insecure when so much of what is going on is not in our control. I had a great discussion with Eliz […]
3 Ways Job Search Has Changed for Those in the 2nd Half of Life
3 Ways Job Search Has Changed The COVID-19 pandemic has changed job search for everyone but particularly for those in the 2nd half of life. Applying to the dreaded applicant tracking system (ATS) before was not a good job search strategy before the pandemic; now it is a waste of time. For those of us […]
Do You Know When to ‘Throw in the Towel’ in Your Career?
Do You Know When to ‘Throw in the Towel?’ Sometimes you have to know when to ‘throw in the towel’ and move in a new direction. I know, I know, some of you are saying that this is being a quitter – or more importantly, admitting that you are a failure. Well, that is BS. […]
Mindset and Belief Systems in the 2nd Half Of Life [Updated]
Mindset and Belief Systems We all have mindsets and belief systems that proved useful in the first half of life. I am squarely in the second half of life and that mindset no longer works for me. Over the last couple of years, many of my mindsets and belief systems have been challenged. My wife […]
